ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,155, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Shandong University of Science and Technology (Qingdao, China).

"Warm-up and temperature preservation apparatus for energy storage batteries in cold regions" was invented by Xiangming Hu (Qingdao, China), Hengyu Xu (Qingdao, China), Boxuan Shang (Qingdao, China), Shuaishuai Yin (Qingdao, China), Zhiyuan Yang (Qingdao, China), Mingming Li (Qingdao, China), Qingsong Wang (Qingdao, China), Xiaoping Li (Qingdao, China), Guoyu Han (Qingdao, China), Yurui Deng (Qingdao, China), Yaru Li (Qingdao, China) and Hao Dong (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This thermal management apparatus for ene...